Alcorp Industries

ALCORP INDUSTRIES

Case Study

Given: June 22, 2016

Due: July 23, 2016

ALCORP Industries is rapidly growing manufacturer of household cleaning Items. The

company began in 2009 with only with ten employees, an office and a warehouse from which it

conducted all its business. However, the organization has grown and now employs over 500

persons. The company currently has four (4) main departments: Human Resources, Sales and

Marketing, Finance, and Manufacturing and production; each with its own sub- departments. The

company occupies a very large commercial complex consisting of several offices dispersed over

the landscape. Its products are passed down the supply chain to retailers by a third party

company, REAL Distributors. REAL Distributors, distributes its products to hundreds of retailers

both locally and oversees. The company would however like to eliminate the cost associated

with this arrangement and sell directly to the retailer and consumers using the internet. They

however are in the dark as to how this might be accomplished.

Currently the company has several legacy systems serving each department with no

interconnection between departments. Data across the systems is also incompatible and

inconsistent. This disparity in data causes frustration among the employees as errors are frequent

and it hampers the efficient and effective performance of their duties.

Payroll

One particular sore point relates to the payment of warehouse employees. Each time an

employee arrives to and leaves work they sign the log book which is used to keep track of their

working hours. Each employee is to work the typical 40 hour work week. Overtime hours may

be granted but must be approved by HR. At the end of the month the log book records are

checked by an admin assistant and sent to HR where the hours are collated and payment prepared

accordingly. A payment approval is then sent to payables where the cheques are prepared. This

process is tedious, time...